New Member For My PC

I've added another two member for my personal computer. Initialy I just plan to buy a 500GB hard disk, however the Lowyat.Net seller zhen^wei told me that the particular model which I interested left only 640GB version. Well the price difference between 500GB and 640GB was RM40. After a short calculation, I told myself "Why not, there is no harm to get the 640GB since I got 140GB extra space". Well it actually sized almost 600GB when I plugged into my PC, because 640GB was estimated size without taking allocation table and bytes loss during bits conversion.


Besides a Hard Disk, I got myself a 5megapixel webcam for testing purpose too. The webcam comes with 2 extra bright led serves as extra light source when you are in dark condition. The brightness can be adjusted too. One thing good about this webcam was it supports plug and play where you can directly plug it into your Windows Vista box and it runs straight away without needing you to find the driver.

Secret Recipe Durian Durian Cake is Back

Just now, Nico and I went for dinner at Equine Park and decided to take a walk at Jusco there. Our main motive is to spend away all the Jusco vouchers that I've collected all year long from various of events organized by my company. After finish shopping there, we buy some cakes home for desert. We walked into Secret Recipe and I was scratching my head what cake should I buy as most of the cakes there are cheese cake. Then suddenly I saw a yellow cake which look cheezy, but when I looked closer, it was actually the limited time durian cake called "Durian Durian". The first question which came across my mind was "is that contains cheese?". Then Nico asked the salesgirl if the cake contains cheese. The salesgirl give us a strange look and replied "No!". Haha.. Lucky me.. Straight away I bought a slice of that and give it a try.

When we open the typical red-box that house the slice of cake, the durian aroma was pretty nice. It looks abit watery and I thought that it's sure ran out of the original taste. However when I take a bite, the durian taste is pretty strong as if you take a bite of durian and a bite of cake. It was really nice and is worth to try that piece of cake again. Personally give the cake 4.8 out of 5. :)

.NET Mamak @ KLCC

Yes I know is such a long time ever since I wrote something here. Since I have a little time right now, here I am. Sounds busy huh? You bet..~! :P

Early morning yesterday, my colleges and I went for the .NET Mamak session at Microsoft Auditorium which located at 29th floor of KLCC Tower 2. Well throughout these 5years in KL, honestly I had never been to the KLCC Tower. We get lost our way where we went up to 41st floor, then to 36th floor, then back to 40th floor, then down to ground floor and finally 29th floor. Anyway cut the craps on the KLCC things and back to the main topic, .NET Mamak session which organized by Microsoft was pretty up to my expectation. :) The session kicked start with introduction of .Net Framework 3.5, and mostly the speakers focused on Windows Presentation Foundation which is nothing new to frequent .NET event participants, I believed. That doesn't really caught much of my attention.

On the session 2 and 3, the speakers introduced and explained some of the tools which is really cool such as the Windows Mobile 6 SDK where it really makes development of Pocket PC application a breeze. Tools like "Cellular Emulator" and "FakeGPS" enables the Pocket PC emulators to receive Calls, Texting, 3G Connections and even GPS. Yea it's cool. I think is time for me to get one and play around with it (provided that I have time to do that). For more information, visit :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb278115.aspx

Extras : Candids from KLCC Tower 2. :P

Creating backdoor for your Windows Vista

Recently my colleague shown me an article about creating a backdoor for Windows Vista and after we tried it out, it was pretty cool and I would like to share with you guys. What we gonna achieve is to create a backdoor so that we can access almost anything in the computer includes those operations that requires UAC, reset/changing admin password and etc without needing you to logon as an authenticate user. Sounds cool?

The overview of the whole thing is that by replace some of the features in Ease of Access provided by Windows Vista, we can actually brings up the command prompt console in the CAD (Ctrl+Alt+Del) Screen.

To achieve this, first you would need to logon as an administrator or whoever that has sufficient privileges to play with the Windows files. After you logon, now starts to gets your hand dirty. I am using a Windows 2008 beta Virtual PC Image for demo as I don't want to mess up with my machine.

Open up your windows explorer, navigate to C:\Windows\System32, and when you open up the properties for magnify.exe, it shows that TrustedInstaller own the file and has the rights to modify it.


In order for you to have the rights to change the file, simply open your command prompt and pump in these command :

takeown /f magnify.exe

This will update the ownership of the file to your account. Next followed by this command :

cacls magnify.exe /g administrator:f

This will grant full access to "administrator" account for magnify.exe. In case you are not running as administrator, you can grant to your current user account by changing the "administrator" to whatever name that your current user account was. After you pump in this command, you will usually prompted with a confirmation, type Y for yes to proceed. Now you hold full permission on magnify.exe, you can proceed to change the file. As for safety reasons, I would suggest that you rename the original magnify.exe instead of replacing it. For eg, type in this command:

rename magnify.exe magnify.bak

which basically will update magnify.exe to magnify.bak.



After done with the command, just copy the original cmd.exe and paste it on the same directory. You should be able to see something like "cmd - copy.exe". Just rename the copy to "magnify.exe" and logoff.




To see the wonders, simply click on the Ease of Access button at the CAD screen, and check on the Magnify option, a command prompt would be prompted out right after you click on the OK button. To double confirm you are running on what kind of user account, you can type on the following command :

whoami /user

You can also enter the GUI mode by pump in the explorer.exe command at the command prompt. The only limitations of this account is you have to depends on the command prompt mode as Windows Explorer wouldn't open when you try to trigger it by double click on My Computer icon.


*Please consume information above at your own risk and I am not responsible for any damage caused by the steps above.

Original guide that I read : http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/vista/vista_backdoor_logon.htm

I am back and Connected!

Streamyx Combo 1MB package is what I am getting after many considerations. The process of getting the phone line installed, and getting streamyx up and running in my new place is quite ease. I took 2 trips to TM building located at Cyberjaya, first time for applying the phone line and second time to take the modem since I opted for self installation. Those who interested, this is for your information... All I have to pay was :
RM75 for registration fees (Streamyx Combo)
RM10 for stamp duty
RM40 for phone line installation
so in total was RM125.

At last I choosen to have this duo combinations - Billion ADSL Modem + Netgear WGR614 Wireless Router + Switch due to budget constraints. All-in-one devices (ADSL Modem + Wireless Router + Switch) cost RM120 more than the one without modem functionality. :S

Configuring both of the device was pretty easy as you would hardly goes wrong with the wizard provided by both the modem and the router.

At last, I am connected... yeay... :)